The parasites allege – with straight faces – that America is in “recovery”. The most recent evidence they’ve used to back that assertion is the ascension of two of the major equity indices, the S&P500 (which I’m not a fan of) and the Wilshire 5000 (which I consider the best all-round equity market index) to December 2007 levels. The suggestion is that because stocks have risen to ostensible pre-crisis levels, the U.S. economy must be getting back to normal.